Turbinado V0.4. Alson Kemp
announced
the release of version 0.4 of Turbinado, an easy to use
Model-View-Controller-ish web framework for Haskell. Highlights for the
0.4 release include a dramatically improved ORM which handles foreign keys,
and improved documentation.

Hackage about to reach 1000 releases. Don Stewart
announced
that Hackage is about to reach the 1000 release
mark, 2 years after it went live. Some pretty charts can
be seen here.

leapseconds-announced-2009. Bjorn Buckwalter
announced
the release of the leapseconds-announced
package, which contains a single module and a single function implementing
the Data.Time.Clock.TAI.LeapSecondTable interface.

multirec-0.2. Andres Loeh
announcedmultirec-0.2,
a library which provides a mechanism to talk about fixed points of
systems of datatypes that may be mutually recursive. On top of these
representations, generic functions such as the fold or the Zipper can
then be defined.

ghci-haskeline 0.1. Judah Jacobson
announced
the first release of ghci-haskeline.
This package uses the GHC API to reimplement ghci with the Haskeline library as a
backend. Haskeline is a library for line input in command-line programs,
similar to readline or editline, which is written in Haskell and thus
(hopefully) more easily integrated into other Haskell programs.

The Monad.Reader (13) - Call for copy. Wouter Swierstra
announced
a Call for Copy for Issue 13 of The
Monad.Reader. The submission deadline is February 13, 2009. Please
get in touch with Wouter if you intend to submit something.

Cabal 2.0. Duncan Coutts
announced
that he has started a wiki page to
collect ideas for Cabal 2. The basic idea for Cabal 2 is to learn
lessons from our how the existing design has fared and how we can make
a better design to tackle an expanded set of goals.

Announcing Haskell protocol-buffers 1.4.0 (the smashing recursive
edition). Chris Kuklewicz
announced
version 1.4.0 (the smashing recursive edition) of protocol-buffers,
a Haskell interface to Google's "..language-neutral, platform-neutral,
extensible way of serializing structured data for use in communications
protocols, data storage, and more."

Haskell WikiProject. Robin Green
asked:
is anyone else interested in forming a Haskell WikiProject on Wikipedia,
to collaborate on improving and maintaining the coverage and quality of
articles on Haskell-related software and topics (broadly defined)?

darcs 2.2.0. Petr Rockai
announced
the release of darcs 2.2.0, with both a source tarball and a cabalized
tarball available. This version features many improvements and bug
fixes; see Petr's original announcement for a list.

hledger 0.3. Simon Michael
announced
the release of hledger 0.3, a
partial haskell clone of John Wiegley's "ledger" text-based accounting tool.
It generates transaction and balance reports from a plain text ledger file,
and demonstrates a functional implementation of ledger.

language-sh-0.0.3.1. Stephen Hicks
announced
the language-sh
package, a set of modules for parsing, manipulating, and printing
sh-style shell scripts. It's being developed alongside shsh, the Simple Haskell Shell.

Coadjute 0.0.1, generic build tool. Matti Niemenmaa
announced
version 0.0.1 of Coadjute, a generic
build tool intended as an easier to use and more portable replacement
for make.

HTTPbis / HTTP-4000.x package available. Sigbjorn Finne
announced
the availability of a modernization of the venerable and trusted HTTP
package. The headline new feature of this version is the parametrization
of the representation of payloads in both HTTP requests and responses;
two new representations are supported, strict and lazy ByteStrings.

monad-interleave 0.1. Patrick Perry
announced
the monad-interleave
package, which provides a type class generalizing his two favorite
functions in Haskell, "unsafeInterleaveIO" and "unsafeInterleaveST".

HEADS UP: finalizer changes coming in GHC 6.10.2. Simon Marlow
announced
that, by popular demand, GHC 6.10.2 will support finalizers that are
actually guaranteed to run, and run promptly. However, there's a catch. If
you want to know what the catch is, read his message.

split-0.1.1 (doc bugfix; new functions wordsBy and linesBy). Brent
Yorgey
announced
version 0.1.1 of the split
library. This version fixes some Haddock bugs, and adds two new
convenience functions suggested by Neil Mitchell, wordsBy and linesBy.

json-0.4.1. Sigbjorn Finne
announced
a new release (0.4.1) of the json
package. New in this release is a generic JSON encoder contributed
by Lennart Augustsson along with a number of other, smaller changes.

haskell-platform mailing list. Duncan Coutts
announced
that anyone interested in helping out with the
haskell platform project is invited to subscribe to the haskell-platform
mailing list. This mailing list is for discussing practical stuff;
policy questions will be discussed on the libraries mailing list.

bytestring-trie 0.1.4. wren ng thornton
announced
version 0.1.4 of the bytestring-trie
package. This release fixes a number of bugs, adds functions such as
keys, toListBy, fromList{L,R,S}, and separated Data.Trie (the main
module for users) from Data.Trie.Internal (gritty details, and core
implementation).

HLint 1.2. Neil Mitchell
announcedHLint version 1.2,
a lint-like tool for Haskell that detects and suggests improvements for
your code. The biggest new feature is list recursion suggestions.

Discussion

Comments from OCaml Hacker Brian Hurt. John Goerzen
posted
a link to a blog
post by Brian Hurt, along with some thoughts about naming things in the
standard libraries, spawning the longest ML thread in recent history.